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My post was insipred by thread Polish: words with Latin roots.
I would like to give a little consideration about other roots and influences in Polish language.
In my opinion it is a very interesting topic expecially for Slavic thread, because it concerns to most of all our languages.
Polish language was/is the one which was subjected by various influences mostly as a result of its very complicated history within centuries.
Polish was once a lingua franca in various regions of cenral and Eastern Europe for over two centuries. Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth which covered not only the territories of what is now Poland and Lithuania, but also the entire territory of Belarus, a large part of Ukraine and Latvia and the most western part of today's Russia and was one of the largest and most populous states in Europe.
According to most linguistic studies Polish was influenced by languages mostly Latin, Czech, French, Russian, Prussia, German, Italian, Old Belarusian,
I give the main sources and ways of the oldest borrowing
X-XVI - century - Latin as a result of Christianity
XVII - XVIII century - French dating from the Napoleon era
XIX century - Russian Prussia (partitions)
XX century - English recently virtually bombarded like many others languages
I would like to ask you, how many words influenced by Polish you could find in yours languages.
My post was insipred by thread Polish: words with Latin roots.
I would like to give a little consideration about other roots and influences in Polish language.
In my opinion it is a very interesting topic expecially for Slavic thread, because it concerns to most of all our languages.
Polish language was/is the one which was subjected by various influences mostly as a result of its very complicated history within centuries.
Polish was once a lingua franca in various regions of cenral and Eastern Europe for over two centuries. Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth which covered not only the territories of what is now Poland and Lithuania, but also the entire territory of Belarus, a large part of Ukraine and Latvia and the most western part of today's Russia and was one of the largest and most populous states in Europe.
According to most linguistic studies Polish was influenced by languages mostly Latin, Czech, French, Russian, Prussia, German, Italian, Old Belarusian,
I give the main sources and ways of the oldest borrowing
X-XVI - century - Latin as a result of Christianity
XVII - XVIII century - French dating from the Napoleon era
XIX century - Russian Prussia (partitions)
XX century - English recently virtually bombarded like many others languages
I would like to ask you, how many words influenced by Polish you could find in yours languages.
) to answer the question you posed at the end of the thread you started.